Technology, Change and the Academic Library: Case Studies, Trends and Reflections(Chandos Information Professional Series)

Massive technological change has been impacting universities and university libraries in recent years. Such change has manifested in technological developments impacting all areas of academic library activity, including systems, services, collections, the physical library environment, marketing, and support for university teaching, learning, research, and administration. Many books and papers have examined these changes from a technical perspective. However, there is little substantive reflection on what technological change means, and how best to get out in front of it, for the academic library. Technology, Change and the Academic Library systematically reflects on technological innovation, the successes, failures and lessons learned, the nature, process and culture of change, and key aspects including impacts on library staff and users, roles and responsibilities, and skills and capabilities. The book takes an international perspective on the massive change currently affecting academic libraries. The title gives an overview and literature review, considers technological innovation and change management, future technologies and future change, and provides information on further reading. Case studies describe the rationale, aims, and objectives for particular technological innovations, and consider methods, outcomes, and recommendations for the future. Finally, the book reflects back on how technological change can best be wrought in academic libraries.

Table of Contents:
Section 11. Introduction Section II: Technology and Change Management in Higher Education and Academic Libraries 2. Technology and Change Management in Academic Libraries3. The People Side of Change: Applying Change Management Principles in Academic Libraries Section III: Case Studies4. Developing Massive Open Online Courses5. Implementation of a Leganto Reading List Service at Curtin University Library6. Transforming Information Advisory Services in University Libraries: A Case Study at the University of Sheffield, UK7. Accelerating Student Learning in Communication and Research Skills: The Adoption of Adaptive Learning Technologies for Scenario-Based Modules8. Developing an Online Book Finding Tool for a University Library9. The White Rose University Press: An Academic-Led Open Access Publisher10. Mutual Benefit from Library Collaboration with Computational Biologists: The cropPAL Project at the University of Western Australia11. Brave New World?: Cardiff Metropolitan University Library Service’s Implementation of a Next Generation Library Management System12. Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL): The E-Book Journey13. Engaging Tertiary Students with University Archival Collections and Digitisation Processes14. Planning and Implementing an Automated Storage and Retrieval System at the University of Limerick15. Making Researchers’ Lives Easier and Managing Risk at the University of Adelaide16. E-Books and Changes in Collection Management at Leeds University Library 17. Universities, Jisc and the Journey to Open Section IV: Reflections18. Reflections on Technology, Change and Academic Libraries